HOLDING A HEARING ON fee-for-carriage one month after a hearing on fee-for-carriage sounds stupid to the extreme, on the face of it, anyway.
However, in a very political move, Heritage…
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IN A VIRTUALLY unprecedented display of unity, Canada’s biggest broadcasters and BDUs unanimously agreed that the federal government’s decision to step in on the fee-for-carriage issue was a good one.
In…
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ST CATHARINES, ON – The Christian Channel has been re-named Grace Television Network, and its TV channel is now known as Grace TV.
The network is owned by World Impact…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The CRTC was quick to reply to the government’s request to hold consumer hearings into the fee-for-carriage debate.
It will begin public hearings this December, the Commission…
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OTTAWA – The Supreme Court of Canada has told the CRTC is can do what it pleases with the $650 million in deferral account money.
That means the Commission’s plan…
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SUDBURY – Cable operator EastLink has cut a further 21 jobs in its Northern Ontario division, based in the Nickel City, reports the Sudbury Star newspaper.
The cuts were primarily…
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TORONTO – Canada’s two largest cable companies have very different opinions of a nine-year old agreement that had its genesis during a March 2000 dinner in Toronto between Ted…
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TORONTO – The purchase of Mountain Cablevision by Shaw Communications can go ahead. Justice James Newbould of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice today dismissed the motion filed by…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Despite the fact the CRTC is set to take a new look at fee-for-carriage for local broadcasters in a hearing this November, Minister of Heritage James Moore…
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DESPITE a global slowdown in broadband customer premises equipment (CPE) over the last year, cable gateways, wireless and VoIP routers, and wireless and VoIP DSL CPE units continued to…
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